This is part of the cycling news in recent weeks, the team Arkéa-B & B Hotels is in an extremely delicate financial situation. It is therefore in this very precarious situation that the Breton team will start 112nd Tour de France with all the same, beautiful cards to look for steps such as Arnaud Demare or Kévin Vauquelin. It is with this spirit that the sports director of Breton training, Didier Rousgave a press conference this Friday to explain the strategy, the ambitions and the situation of his team.
Video – Didier Rous and the Arkéa -B & B Hotels team before the Tour
“We are able to bet on sprints and escapes”
To begin with, Didier Rous wanted to clarify the situation of the team and precisely define the objectives of his team on the Tour de France : “As for the future of the team, Emmanuel Hubert works a lot, we are behind him, we trust him, we know that he is working a lot and above all we are there to perform and try to be the best possible on this tower and throughout the year. We are all united and behind him so that things are going at best. The main objective is a stage victory, we have tasted the past year UCI, it's not for the prestige, it is that we run to win races and we did second in a Giro stage this year, the queen stage, which is already a performance in itself, but today the UCI points … Yes and no, I think that you must already be efficient, run to have the best possible result and then the points come with it.
Then, the sports director of training Arkéa-B & B Hotels To confirm wanting to play on several tables, as much with Arnaud Demare than with Kévin Vauquelin :“We are capables to bet on the sprints and on the escapes. We have a few runners who are able to be there to help Arnaud, on the slightly more hilly stages and especially for the escapes where we also have a very armed team and we built it for that. We have not the same team around Arnaud as the past year, the turn is done differently too, there is much more arrivals. For Puts where the escapes can go to the end. Kévin.
